Cordell A. Taylor was born in 1960 in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He is a sculptor, a furniture maker, and a gallery owner. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Taylor earned a BFA in sculpture from the University of Utah in 1992.  Following his graduation, he started his own contemporary arts gallery.  He and a fellow artist Lenka Konopasek are founding members of Surface, a nonprofit group promoting contemporary art. 

Taylor has received the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award in the Arts (2002) and a Utah Individual Artist Grant from the Utah Arts Council (1998).    He also won a merit award at the Springville Museum of Art spring salon in 1999. He was named as one of the top 100 Utah Artists during the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

His work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, Wells Fargo, AT&T, Utah Transit Authority, and Utah Opera. Explorer (2001), a mixed media work, and Assimilation are examples of his sculpture.  Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake City represents his work.

Information on this page was adapted from information the artist provided.